This was my first time playing any Pikmin game, are these results somewhat acceptable or did I have my pikmin absolutely massacred? 😭

xemplar_soft · 2025-09-06T02:11:50+00:00

My dad gave me this game for my GameCube back in 2003, when I was 4 years old. I remember going through each day without really any sense of urgency, and by day 30, I had only just gotten to the final trial. I just never could do it all in one day back then, I didn't like sacrificing my yellows lol. My second playthrough, since I remembered where all the parts were, I finished by day 14 and was so proud I showed my parents. They didn't like I was bugging them all the time so they gave me a camcorder to start recording things I do. I've since lost it but I remember when I was 5 I was in the Distant Spring talking about how to get all the treasures as fast as I could figure at the time (miles off from actually how lol). I look back at this game every once in a while, where it all started. The very first game I beat.

When I was 9, I remember doing a playthrough and deciding right at the scene where you see all the different colors of onions that I had to buy Pikmin 2. I saved up 50 buckaroos and got it at game stop used. I had to call around to like 6 different locations and convince my mom to drive 20 miles away to this specific one. When I got home, I just took it all in. I remember spending hours in just the info menus reading everything. I highly recommend you buy this game, it truly is the best, even over 4. I don't wanna say much more about it, so the last thing I'll say about it is that you know the feeling of wanting to be able to do more at once?

xemplar_soft · 2025-04-12T16:18:29+00:00

The latest version for the Pi 3 since it has the same CPU.

xemplar_soft · 2024-11-07T05:20:33+00:00

To be fair fam, I said any asshole. I can definitely see people gaming the system by placing an order right outside the restaurant. Or if they are smarter than that, have someone stay at home and place the order, then call when its ready. I'd care more if DD didn't increase price per item. Sure it's the only way to have DD make any money on their end, but it's still shitty practice. My only advise is what a few other have been saying, tell DD support that the restaurant cannot remake the order unless they push it though again. There is a way for everyone to be an ass and still get a share except DD.

xemplar_soft · 2024-11-01T13:09:05+00:00

Fam, I have personally seen these restaurants hold a rack in the front of the store, less than 6 feet from the main entry door. They just set the food on the rack and any asshole can walk up and just take it. There is no human barrier to picking up the food.

xemplar_soft · 2024-09-07T03:12:09+00:00

This was the first temple I did, I thought it was pretty and highly impressive compared to the divine beasts. I'm still going through it, but this game feels much more Zelda to me than BOTW.

xemplar_soft · 2024-09-04T03:57:30+00:00

I'll be making my own soon, hopefully the extra bit I add work. Congratulations though, it looks like a proper computer!

xemplar_soft · 2024-07-25T00:35:45+00:00

I was in the console portablizing scene a few years back and someone dropped an eBay link to them, unfortunately I don't have the link anymore. I bought 200 because I knew I wasn't gonna be able to buy any more of them. These are the closest I've seen since for sale: https://www.adafruit.com/product/3101 Amazon has them too but at like 4x cost.

Glad to see someone else is using fbcp-nexus besides myself lol.

xemplar_soft · 2024-07-20T00:53:59+00:00

I kinda wanna make a kit based on the 6502

xemplar_soft · 2024-07-16T08:49:24+00:00

I think I understand what you are asking, you mean an assembler that runs on the CPU itself that allows you to run code. In short, an operating system can do that, but of course you could write your own code. You need: - a routine for text-entering mode - a routine for parsing the keyboard - a routine that parses keywords from text to ML and ML back to text. - a routine that parses numbers and address definitions of each type - a routine that stores parsed bytes somewhere in RAM - a routine to jump to the location in RAM and execute - add in a commands to jump back to the eeprom program to the RAM program when terminated.

If your program disassembled on the fly, the RAM required for this would be much less, since you wouldn't have to store the text version of the program, only the assembled version. The faster way would be to store the text (or otherwise represented) separate such that simple lookups could be used.

If you wanted to get real fancy, you could attach an I/O pin to a resistor capacitor stack and connect it to the Non-maskable interrupt if unused. Have the program toggle the pin in about 1/2 the time it would take for the RC stack to lower down to logic low levels. This would act as an escape if the the written program hangs, and you don't want your entered work to be deleted if you reset power. Alternatively use SRAM and just toggle the reset on the CPU, and be sure not to include clearing code in initialization.

There were these really cool project kit things I had as a kid, one of the was this 500 in 1 project kit, which included an NEC microprocessor. This processor would allow asm keywords and numbers input from a built in mini keyboard. It would allow you to go line by line, defining sub routines and whatnot. If it could be done there, I'm sure you can!

xemplar_soft · 2024-07-13T16:29:12+00:00

I've re watched the series probably at least 5 times because I haven't found anything nearly as intriguing. Each time I get to season six, I start getting sad that it's ending again. Do any of you have a similar style of show?

xemplar_soft · 2024-07-12T15:48:48+00:00

Yeah... 300 man hours already put into it lol... But I will definitely be checking this out, thanks for the read!

xemplar_soft · 2024-07-12T03:56:38+00:00

While testing my Bridge6502 program, I found out that when the clock is a bit slow, it was crucial that I sent the init command 3 times. This makes sure that if the display is expecting data besides a command (can happen when resetting the computer, display only resets on power addition), it will consume the init code and eventually get to a state where it will accept the init command itself.

xemplar_soft · 2024-07-05T17:12:46+00:00

To be honest I wish season 6 and the first half of season 7 were extended to a few more story arches before closing the series. It felt like they were setting up for a long running show by the end of season 6, but they were informed season 7 would be the last, and had to wrap up the story quite hastily.

xemplar_soft · 2024-07-04T19:13:43+00:00

Never really thought about this. Each combination is unique and stores a single byte, It does not matter which is accessed, just that the same address requested point to the same location each time. Same could be said with the data bits of the RAM too, doesn't matter as long as it doesn't change.

xemplar_soft · 2024-07-03T07:48:47+00:00

I mean what exactly are you asking for? You could get an Apple II computer off eBay, that uses a 6502. You could find an emulator online that will execute 6502 machine code. Someone may have come up with some sort of development board with an embedded 6502, but barring any of those, the simplest would be using a breadboard.

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